Kevin
Moffett was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. For
years, he edited and wrote for Funworld, the official magazine of
the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions.
He interviewed Dolly Parton and Pele, traveled to haunted cornfields
in Ohio and near-deserted theme parks in Spain, and rode an unhealthy
number of roller coasters. He wrote at length about this for The
Believer.
His first collection of stories, Permanent Visitors,
won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, judged by George Saunders,
and was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story
Award. His stories have appeared in The Better of McSweeney's
Vol. 2, Tin House, Land-Grant College Review, the Chicago
Tribune, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best,
and in three editions of The Best American Short Stories
(2006, 2009, and 2010). He has received the Nelson Algren Award, the
Pushcart Prize, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment
of the Arts.
He won the National Magazine Award in 2010 for “Further
Interpretations of Real-Life Events.”
He teaches in the graduate creative writing program
at Cal State University, San Bernardino.
Contact Kevin at kevmoff@gmail.com